Part 1 2 – 3 pages -Your job in this part of the assignment is to share your col

Part 1
2 – 3 pages
-Your job in this part of the assignment is to share your collected thoughts on the assigned readings
-Consider themes and connections that you see emerging from these research papers that you can share
-What themes are standing out the most to you and why do you think they are?
-To excel in this aspect of the final assignment you need to make abundantly clear your in-depth consideration of these articles and clearly articulate the story you see them telling together
-Remember the key to success in this component of the final assignment is to
into the material, taken altogether, and to do so using well-crafted writing
Part 2
5 – 7 pages
o Mini review, brief scholary essay examining a specific topic/issue in sex differences and behavioural neuroscience research
o Must be APA style
o Exceptions – Use Arial font NOT Times New Roman
o Use of subheadings is accepted (this can be helpful for you to
organize the information that you have collected and assessed)
o You need to have a minimum of 8 references (scholarly, peer reviewed articles), 6 of which must be primary research studies, you are welcome to use more than 8 references (this may make the assignment easier for you)
o You are welcome to include papers that we have read together in your references, but only 1 class read paper can be counted toward your 8 total references
o The following is a link to an excellent web resource that describes the nature of a literature review and various approaches to crafting a review: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of- writing/literature-review (a mini-review is just a literature review that is on the shorter side)
o It is important to note that writing a mini-review is different from the descriptive writing you were doing in the exploration part of your reflexploration report
o In a review you are not simply successively stringing together descriptions of 8 different papers you found about a particular topic
o Instead, you are developing a question about a particular topic in sex differences and behavioural neuroscience , finding 8 carefully selected papers directly seeking to answer your question, reading your selected papers, deciding what answer these papers collectively give you and then generating an appropriate thesis statement: These papers together tell me _____________________ about my research question
o Once you have established your thesis you are then able to construct an outline for your paper determining the most effective way to support your thesis
o Subheadings are an effective way to help you organize your materials to support your thesiso Must be APA style
o Exceptions – Use Arial font NOT Times New Roman
o Use of subheadings is accepted (this can be helpful for you to
organize the information that you have collected and assessed)
o You need to have a minimum of 8 references (scholarly, peer reviewed articles), 6 of which must be primary research studies, you are welcome to use more than 8 references (this may make the assignment easier for you)
o You are welcome to include papers that we have read together in your references, but only 1 class read paper can be counted toward your 8 total references
o The following is a link to an excellent web resource that describes the nature of a literature review and various approaches to crafting a review: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of- writing/literature-review (a mini-review is just a literature review that is on the shorter side)
o It is important to note that writing a mini-review is different from the descriptive writing you were doing in the exploration part of your reflexploration report
o In a review you are not simply successively stringing together descriptions of 8 different papers you found about a particular topic
o Instead, you are developing a question about a particular topic in sex differences and behavioural neuroscience , finding 8 carefully selected papers directly seeking to answer your question, reading your selected papers, deciding what answer these papers collectively give you and then generating an appropriate thesis statement: These papers together tell me _____________________ about my research question
o Once you have established your thesis you are then able to construct an outline for your paper determining the most effective way to support your thesis
o Subheadings are an effective way to help you organize your materials to support your thesiso Must be APA style
o Exceptions – Use Arial font NOT Times New Roman
o Use of subheadings is accepted (this can be helpful for you to
organize the information that you have collected and assessed)
o You need to have a minimum of 8 references (scholarly, peer reviewed articles), 6 of which must be primary research studies, you are welcome to use more than 8 references (this may make the assignment easier for you)
o You are welcome to include papers that we have read together in your references, but only 1 class read paper can be counted toward your 8 total references
o The following is a link to an excellent web resource that describes the nature of a literature review and various approaches to crafting a review: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of- writing/literature-review (a mini-review is just a literature review that is on the shorter side)
o It is important to note that writing a mini-review is different from the descriptive writing you were doing in the exploration part of your reflexploration report
o In a review you are not simply successively stringing together descriptions of 8 different papers you found about a particular topic
o Instead, you are developing a question about a particular topic in sex differences and behavioural neuroscience , finding 8 carefully selected papers directly seeking to answer your question, reading your selected papers, deciding what answer these papers collectively give you and then generating an appropriate thesis statement: These papers together tell me _____________________ about my research question
o Once you have established your thesis you are then able to construct an outline for your paper determining the most effective way to support your thesis
o Subheadings are an effective way to help you organize your materials to support your thesis